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The aim of this paper is to point out the importance of the concept of Open science within the academic community and highlight the connection and application of this global idea within higher education, emphasizing its advantages as well as the obstacles that may be encountered. The paper will highlight numerous European initiatives that are being developed between different organizations with the aim of advocating Open science. Furthermore, the emphasis of the paper will be on the idea of openness in science and the importance of the values promoted by the European University initiative in relation to the given topic. Methodology. this paper aims to show, through the Case study - example of the Library and Documentation Center of the Faculty of Economics and Business in Zagreb (FEB), that it is possible to successfully use the integrative approach of open science within the academic community by following examples of good practice within the University and higher education libraries. The limitation of the paper is that it is a Case study of one organization - the Faculty of Economics and Business Zagreb and its Library and Documentation Center. Originality. The originality of this paper is that on the basis of researching recent literature of the foreign and Croatian experts on open science and higher education, we present an overview of this topic from the aspect of the higher education Library and Documentation Center of the Faculty of Economics and Business Zagreb (FEB). The social impact and practical application of this paper is manifested in the need to promote the concept of open science in higher education, describing the current practice at the FEB Zagreb and the associated higher education library, which shows the efforts to adopt the model of "openness" through various activities and numerous projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bishop Strossmayer left a significant mark in the preservation of Croatian culture, especially by promoting the spiritual and educational dimension of art. Therefore, the paper presents the results of internal research conducted using Google Form among 54 first and fifth-year students of History and Croatian Language and Literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and students of Fine Arts at the Academy of Arts and Culture of the J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek. They confirmed the initial hypothesis that students are most familiar with data related to their specific field of study and lack broader knowledge of the bishop's work, especially his vision of art. It is surprising, however, that some questions were answered better by first-year students than by fifth-year students, which leads to the conclusion that a greater cross-curricular correlation is needed for today's students to better understand the work of Bishop Strossmayer. At the same time, this also leads to the conclusion that students acquire greater knowledge about the person and work of Bishop Strossmayer during their secondary education and that they do not expand it enough during their studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public sector salary policy aims at making the salary system more transparent and keeping it at the same level in different public authorities and services. In practice, governing bodies use salary policy to demonstrate their priorities in managing the entire public sector. Such an approach frequently carries particular discriminatory features. The paper aims at presenting the system of determining the salaries of employees in public authorities and public services and giving an overview of the currently applicable legal framework in this regard. Considering the size of the public sector, a salary analysis was made on a sample of the salaries of university teaching personnel, doctors and judges. The criteria for selecting the jobs in question in the sample are the features common to each profession: independence in decision-making and work as set by the legal framework, a clear hierarchy of advancement in the profession, budget financed salaries and external evaluation related to potential advancement within the system. For each group of the aforesaid categories of employees, the similarities and differences in the salary determination system are shown. Accordingly, the extent to which the principle of equal pay for equal work is respected as stipulated by the provisions of the Labour Law, as well as potentially discriminatory elements in the determining salaries system within the public sector are established. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective. The aim of the research is to point out the differences in the scientific discourse that prevail in the domains of information literacy and graduate employability. The previous research results of the two authors of this paper have shown a very weak overlap between the domains of information literacy and employability. In this research, through the analysis of the notions of skill and competence, the authors have tried to determine why these two very important notions from the context of employability do not contribute to the stronger connection between information literacy and the issue of youth employability. Methodology. The mapping and visualization of the domain of research was done by performing a bibliometric co-word analysis over the sets of documents extracted from the Scopus citation base. The analysis was carried out using the VOSviewer software developed at the Center for Science and Technology Studies in Leiden. Results. By constructing the model of the domains of information literacy and employability, the visual mapping of the key concepts has shown the differences that prevail in their discourse. The analysis was carried out through the concepts of skills and competences, which are characteristic terms related to graduate employability. From their position in the information literacy domain, it is evident that they are on the edge of the cluster of 'information literacy', in the environment and context of 'acquiring skills and competencies' that are very generally related to acquiring information literacy, regardless of work and/or employability. However, in the domain of employability, it is evident that they are at the center of the cluster of 'graduate employability', which embraces 'work and employability' on the one hand, and 'students and higher education' on the other hand. It is especially indicative that in the information literacy model constructed with minimal restrictions, there are no concepts related to work, employability or employment, which indicates that the entire discourse of the domain of information literacy is not oriented in that direction. Originality. So far, no comprehensive analysis of the employability domain and its discourse in the graduate employability segment has been carried out, especially from the information literacy point of view. This paper presents a specific aspect which suggests why the discourse of these two domains is different, although both terms of skills and competences are actively present. By using the methods and tools of visual mapping, the results are presented very intuitively, in a clear and easy manner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Evaluation of the quality of the scientific activity of the Croatian academic and scientific community depends on the qualitative analysis of the published scientific papers, the entire scientific activity as well as the quantitative indicators as prescribed by the Law on Scientific Activity and Higher Education. Quantitative evaluation of the quality of scientific activities of scientists includes indicators that bring bibliographic and citation databases, and in recent years increasingly used alternative methods for evaluating scientific productivity (Altmetrics) based on social networks. In the Rule book, published in the Official Gazette, the National Council for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development provides in more details the conditions for the selection of scientific titles on the basis of which the parent committees and the evaluation committees evaluate the overall scientific activity of the applicant taking into account the particularities of particular scientific and artistic areas, individual scientific fields and interdisciplinary areas. The National Council for Science, Higher Education and Technological Development at a session held on March 7, 2017, issued a new Rulebook on Conditions for Selection in Scientific Professions. The paper presents elements for the quantitative evaluation of scientific productivity of scientists of the Croatian academic and scientific community of biotechnical areas defined by the current Ordinance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this work is to create the best possible foundation for a discussion on the role of Political economy as a core discipline within theoretical economics in the social sciences in Croatia. Narrower focus of this work is the role and importance of the subject of Political economy in the education of jurists. The paper is divided into three parts, the introduction provides an overview of the current practice of studying economic disciplines, especially political economy at the Faculty of Law University of Zagreb. In the second part, the paper discusses an exceptional academic debate on the role of economics and economic analysis of law in the education of jurists held at the conference of leading American experts. At the end of the article, the authors raise new questions and propose solutions to specific issues of Political economy in the education of future jurists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although there is a wide consensus on theoretical concepts and the pragmatic focus of IL, specifically in academic librarianship, many initial premises in the field have lately been discussed and questioned. The re-examination of wide-held assumptions in information literacy, the critique of its proclaimed purpose and practical manifestations led to the shift towards critical information literacy. The aim of this paper is to determine whether critical information literacy provides a distinctive theoretical contribution to the contemporary discourse in information literacy. Based on qualitative literature analysis the authors will examine some basic ideas and conceptual assumptions of critical information literacy and contrast and compare the dominant instrumentally-focused approach to information literacy with critical approaches. Specifically, the authors will try to determine to what extent core concepts of critical information literacy reflect on questions, dilemmas and problems identified in information literacy theory and praxis in the last decades, and whether critical information literacy offers a viable framework for perceived weaknesses, with an explicit outlook to the context of higher education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides an overview of the theoretical and empirical framework of the debate on widening participation in higher education and explores to what extent the lessons learnt in this field have been applied in the field of public policy. Widening participation is based on the assumption that the probability of entering and successfully completing higher education is contingent on a complex range of social, economic and cultural characteristics of potential students, and that the measures aimed at widening participation must acknowledge the multi-faceted nature of inequities in education. In this context, this paper analyses the extent to which international stakeholders in higher education acknowledge widening participation as a priority. Special attention is given to the question of whether their policy documents take into account the results and implications of empirical research in this field. Finally, the paper assesses the potential impact of these documents on the debate on this topic in Croatia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In order to follow the development of science and technology, libraries are faced with the need to change the ways they use their space and services, but also the ways they train users for their present and future needs. The advance of Internet and various communication channels available through Internet have created a new paradigm in the education of library users. More and more users are turning to Internet and other forms of e-education (e-journals, e-books, etc.) and their number is growing every day. Also, the forms of e-education in libraries are easily available, facilitate the communication between users and librarians, stimulate the education which does not depend solely on users' actual coming to the library, and as the final result, libraries have satisfied users. This paper follows the phases of creation and development of e-materials for educating library users, from the first decision to create the e-materials (initial discussions on the forms of e-education, choosing the best tools combinations, preparing the materials, etc.) to the final moment of publishing the materials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our postmodern era is characterized by the ending of a University and disappearance of the idea of higher education. The awareness of the ending of a University should contain a clear image of its beginning. But that is not the case. Even after so much time, there are still opacities regarding the origin, forming and growth of the idea of a University, especially regarding its forming in the Middle Ages. The only thing certain is that the idea and reality of a University cannot be attributed solely to one civilization and historical period. The author considers that the idea of higher education and its first establishments was not conceived in the West, but in the East, in ancient India, China, and Greece and early Byzantium. The paper treats the attitude that the Muslim mind is responsible for the idea of higher education and its first historical establishments. It contributed to the appearance and growth of the medieval Western-European idea of a University and to its concrete realizations. Further on, the author develops a discourse on nature of an European medieval University and its complete institutional establishment in the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study was to determine the sources of stress in the work of university teachers working in Croatia and to construct a questionnaire that would enable quantitative studies in this area. A qualitative study, aimed to determine the sources of stress at work, was conducted on a convenience sample of 34 higher education teachers in different academic ranks (assistants and professors), working in twelve faculties of the University of Zagreb and University in Split. Using the method of guided group discussions, we identified 125 characteristic sources of stress in the work that are logically categorized into nine content groups. Based on a qualitative study, we have constructed Questionnaire of Exposure to Stress in the Work for University Teachers and apply it on a sample of teachers (N=388) from three Croatian universities. After the implementation of confirmatory factor analysis procedures, the final questionnaire contains 68 items, which define the seven latent dimensions of sources of stress: Teaching and students, Consequences of the Bologna reform, Scientific-research work, Role-conflict, Remuneration and recognition, and Interpersonal relationships. The paper presents data on the metric characteristics of the structured questionnaire, and descriptive results of the pilot application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main proposition of this paper is that the Croatian legal framework for higher education fails to meet the criteria of the internal market of the EU. In the first part, the author draws a distinction between education as public good and education as service, and explains how EU law affects the regulatory autonomy of the Member States in the area of higher education. In the second part, the author analyses hitherto identified barriers to the exercise of market, freedoms created by national legal frameworks of higher education. The third part discusses the Croatian legal framework and tests it against EU standards. The author concludes that deficiencies of Croatian higher education law are partly caused by the ignorance of policy makers and partly by the structural weakness of the negotiating process, where chapters are negotiated independently from one another and focused on formal fulfillment of benchmarks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to establish if the Higher Education reforms, so-called Bologna process, have led to changes in attiude towards learning. Research was carried out on a total sample of 216 students, male and female, from the University of Juraj Dobrila in Pula, 93 of whom had studied under the pre-Bologna process and 123 students who were studying under the new Higher Education program based on the principles of the Bologna Declaration. A questionnaire with sub-scales assessing organisation, fl exibility in learning, manner of processing information, use of aids, active participation in class, motivation and anxiety, was employed in order to examine their learning strategies. The results of the analysis point to the existence of statistically signifi cant differences between the groups in favour of students following the new system of studying: students who are studying under the Bologna system use aids significnatly more often, process the subject matter more thoroughly, are more flexible in learning, more active and more motivated than their predecessors. The differences obtained are examined in the context of modified conditions of studying and the new system of Higher Education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The need for the higher education process to be economically efficient, together with the need for equity and equality in access to higher education services for everyone represents the starting point of this paper. The analysis was conducted using data from a survey on a random sample of young people who recently finished their education using three criterion variables: completion of the study, study success, and the speed of study completion. These variables were chosen because all three individually and in total indicate the efficiency of the process of higher education, but taken together with the data about students and their form of study, other costs of study, family socio-economic background, and eligibility for indirect state financial assistance, also indicate the problems of equality in access to public higher education in Croatia. The obtained results show that the chances for completion of the study are primarily related to the socio-economic status of students. Completion is especially low for students from lower socio-economic strata who do not pay tuition fee, which suggests that the existing instruments of financial aid for non-academic costs are not sufficient for this group. The speed of study completion is primarily influenced by the costs students have to pay for tuition, lower socio-economic status of the students, and eligibility for financial aid conditioned by the dynamics of the study (scholarships). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyses the connection between the civic mission of the university, higher education teaching (as one of the basic academic activities) and the education of socially responsible and active citizens. It presents one of the most current models of experiential learning at the university level, originally called service-learning. The model in question relies on the integration of the curriculum and active involvement of the students in the community with the aims of ensuring their better understanding of the academic discipline, the needs and problems of the community and encouraging their (further) civic involvement. The international academic community is increasingly regarding this model as a mechanism that successfully contributes to the realisation of certain aspects of the civic mission of the university. With the purpose of contributing to the conceptual analysis, the concepts and approaches to the definition and theoretical origins are presented. Opening the area of the discussion about the challenges of the integration of this model into higher education curriculum at our universities, the Croatian equivalent of the term service learning is offered and explained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The institute of Students' Attorney is a new notion introduced for the students' population of the Republic of Croatia and it is based on the Law on Students' Assembly and other Students' Organisations (NN 71/07; furtheron ZSZ). Since the institute of Students' Attorney was introduced at the Faculty of Law in Osijek in July 2008 the first survey of the level of students' rights respect has been done and it will be continued in the course of the years to come. The survey of students' rights respect is part of the university education quality control system. One of the main aims of this research project is promotion of students' rights for the purpose of long-term study quality control. According to Gryn and Juran: «Quality management is a process that recognizes and manages activities necessary for achieving the quality goals of an organisation» and one of the basic indicators of university institution quality is for sure the level of students' rights respect. The survey at the Faculty of Law in Osijek was done by a paper-pencil method sampling 246 respondents. The research included students of all study years. The results indicate a worrying data: almost 44% of the respondents consider their rights to be often violated. Only 1 respondent considers that students' rights are fully respected at the Faculty of Law in Osijek. However, this should be observed in a wider context of the information that only 13% of the students in the survey think that they are informed about the majority of students' rights. It should be noted that the awareness of students' rights violation presumes the knowledge of these rights a whole. Otherwise it can be confused with the feeling of personal (dis)content or (in)justice at the faculty subject to survey. Therefore, the first survey has shown that it is necessary to educate students about their rights but it also indicates the need for quality improvement, i.e. greater respect of students' rights. The survey has also shown that the institute of Students' Attorney has not started operating completely (in spite of the rights violation perception only 12% of the respondents set out the concrete problem before the students' attorney) but it has a great potential for future development (e.g. almost 1/3 of the respondents think that the relationship between students and professors is exceptionally bad or bad). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Factual evidence is a necessary precondition for efficient creation of any public policy, and education policies are not an exception. This paper portrays changes in participation, completion, duration and structure of fee regimes in Croatian tertiary education system, based upon the data collected by Croatian Central Bureau of Statistics. During the past two decades Croatian higher education system went through the greatest transformation in last fifty years. Considerable massification and commercialization of tertiary education ensued. Both processes reached their full pace well before adoption of the Bologna process, and are most visible in professional studies, and academic courses in business, economics and law faculties. Despite expansion of system and prolongation of average study duration, completion rate has somewhat increased during the past decade. Taken together, this was reflected as considerable increase in number of students and proportion of cohort that successfully completes tertiary education. Though, with about 40% of students failing to graduate, Croatia still lags behind majority of EU and OECD countries, both with regard to proportion of cohort which graduates and number of students who drop out of tertiary education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]